Steve Youngs wrote:
VETO
* Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> writes:
> XEmacs 21.5 source patch:
> Diff command: cvs -q -f diff -u
> Files affected: configure.usage
This file should be `cvs rm'. It is an old remnant of autoconf 2.13
days and is no longer used or needed.
You know that configure.usage is prominently featured on
http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html as the reference for configuration
options, don't you? (item 5.)
The right thing to do here is help Adrian fix the build package to
parse the output of `./configure --help'.[1]
configure help has not enough information (yet).
My patch is band-aid, granted; but I think the chances are very small that
anybody will step up to fix build in the next few weeks, i.e., build will be
unusable for the mid-term to long-term future. Thus, if you cvs rm
configure.usage, you should think about removing the references to build from
your documentation, too. Or add a big disclaimer that it doesn't work.
Anyhow, I don't care much; I just wanted to help. Next time I'll spend the
evening with my wife, instead of preparing an unannounced patch. ;-)
Joachim
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